This Man Has a Credit Card Chip in His Hand (On Purpose)

Look, we're usually all for DIY projects. Non-toxic cleaning products? Fabulously DIY-able. A spa day on a budget? Get your DIY on. Giving evolution a jumpstart by turning yourself into an IRL Inspector Gadget via at-home surgery? Go for — wait, what was that last one?

According to Joshua Landy, MD, critical care specialist and cofounder of the medical social media platform Figure 1, "Biohacking falls somewhere between body modification and a surgical procedure… and it's mostly an amateur sport."

About that last one: Dude just waves his hand to pay for stuff. And he's done so for nine whole years. A nurse noticed the chip during a routine x-ray for a different surgical procedure and also learned that Credit Card Guy is planning to, uh, self-install a garage-door opener. We assume a really compact one.

Admittedly, that hand-payment thing is kind of a baller first-date move. But according to Dr. Landy, biohacking isn't the safest idea. You're running serious medical risks, the likeliest of which is infection, and, as Landy points out, "even necessary medical implants get infected in sterile, surgical environments."